[KGVID]https://lovelymobile.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Economist-video.mp4[/KGVID] The Economist, a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, today announced that it will bring its mind-stretching journalism and global perspective to Snapchat users in the US,Canada, Britain and Australia through the Snapchat Discover platform. Each weekend The Economist will publish an edition on Snapchat Discover that examines one theme […]
McDonald’s, Unilever and Gatorade are among the first advertisers to purchase Snapchat ads via third parties in what appears to be a test of the app’s programmatic potential. Rather than rush to explore that potential, the mobile messaging app is carefully testing automated ads with a select number of brands. These include Gatorade and Nissan […]
Technology firm Xurpas Inc. is taking over a fast-growing mobile advertising network in Asia Pacific with a $45-million deal to buy 100 percent of Singapore-based technology firm Art of Click Pte. Ltd. Art of Click has created a proprietary, next generation ad optimization platform for advertisers. Its platform supports both client brands and global and […]
Building better mobile advertising experiences comes down to understanding the consumer journey, being contextually relevant, and respecting their ability to opt in and out of engagement. That’s the view of Exponential head of mobile for APAC and South Africa, Nicole Liebmann, who presented on how to optimise mobile advertising at the vendor’s recent customer breakfast […]
Singapore-based mobile advertising network BuzzCity has been acquired by London-based Mobads for an undisclosed sum. Both companies focus on direct response mobile marketing but the acquisition will give Mobads the ability to serve brands alongside the direct response product. Mobads CEO, Sacha Jacobs, commented: “The mobile advertising segment still shows enormous growth potential for the next four years; with […]
With the number of Hispanic voters in the U.S. topping 27 million this year – and immigration playing a pivotal role in the national debate – the impact of this rapidly growing demographic on the 2016 election is expected to be decisive. Florida International University (FIU) and Adsmovil decided to run a mobile poll using […]
Pushspring announced a partnership with comScore to introduce mobile audience segments, based on comScore Mobile Metrix and PushSpring’s App Graph data, for use in programmatic ad buys. PushSpring says it provides advertisers and app publishers with mobile app audience data for more than 200 million unique device IDs in the US and Canada. The company […]
Razorfish, a world leader in helping global brands drive customer obsessed business transformation, today announced it has hired Kevin Mercurio as director of data science for the COSMOSTM platform, a new position. Based in the agency’s New York office, Mercurio will report to Chief Intelligence Officer Samih Fadli. The hire follows the recent launch of […]
TubeMogul has been selected as the preferred programmatic platform partner for brand advertising in Australia by multinational distilled beverage manufacturer, Pernod Ricard. Pernod, which previously used Vizeum for all of their programmatic buys, will now use TubeMogul’s automated software platform to plan, buy, measure and optimise their Australian brand advertising and manage the entire process […]
Mastercard is about to start letting customers in the UK and Europe pay for goods online by using their face instead of a password. Having already been trialled in the US and Canada, the service, called Identity Check Mobile, asks for customers to pose for a photograph of their face to authenticate online purchases. Shoppers […]
